William B. Macomber
William Butts Macomber, Jr. (born March 26, 1921 in Rochester , New York , † November 19, 2003 in Nantucket , Massachusetts ) was an American diplomat who was Assistant Secretary between 1957 and 1961 and again from 1967 to 1969 of State for Legislative Affairs and was the United States Ambassador to Turkey from 1973 to 1977 . He was then President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 1978 and 1986 .
Life
William Butts Macomber began after attending the Phillips Academy in 1940 an undergraduate degree at Yale University , which he completed in 1943 with a bachelor's degree . During the Second World War he did military service in the US Marine Corps and, after retiring from active military service as a first lieutenant in 1946, continued his studies at Yale University, where he also obtained a master's degree in 1947 . In 1949 he completed a postgraduate degree in law at Harvard Law School and was then a lecturer at Boston University before he earned another master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1951 . In 1954 he became administrative assistant to the United States Republican Senator from Kentucky , John Sherman Cooper .
On October 21, 1957, Macomber was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs for the first time head of the Legislative Department in the US State Department and thus successor to Robert C. Hill . He held this position until February 27, 1961 and was then replaced by Lawrence Brooks Hays . He in turn was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Jordan on March 2, 1961 , where he succeeded Sheldon T. Mills on April 5, 1961 with his letter of accreditation . He remained in this post until December 5, 1963, when Robert G. Barnes succeeded him there. After his return, he again replaced Douglas MacArthur II on March 2, 1967 and took over the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs for the second time . He held this position until October 2, 1969, when he was replaced by David M. Abshire . He was then appointed on September 6, 1969 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to succeed Idar D. Rimestad as Deputy Head of the Department of Administration (Deputy Under Secretary for Administration) . This office, which was renamed on July 12, 1971 in (Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management) , he held until April 4, 1973 and was then replaced by Lewis Dean Brown .
Most recently, William B. Macomber took over the post of Ambassador of the United States to Turkey on March 27, 1973 as the successor to William J. Handley and handed over his letter of accreditation on May 16, 1973. He held this position until June 15, 1977, when he was replaced by Ronald I. Spiers . After retiring from the diplomatic service, he succeeded C. Douglas Dillon as President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978 . He held this office until 1986, when William Luers was his successor.
Macomber, who was married to Phyllis Dorothy Bernau Macomber, was buried in Nantucket's Saint Pauls Memorial Garden cemetery after his death .
publication
- The Angels'Game: A Handbook Of Modern Diplomacy , 1975
Web links
- Resume on the US State Department home page
- Entry in The Political Graveyard
- William B. Macomber in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- William Macomber, Diplomat and Met Chief, Dies at 82 . In: The New York Times of November 22, 2003
Individual evidence
- ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs
- ^ Chiefs of Mission for Jordan
- ^ Deputy Under Secretaries of State for Management
- ^ Chiefs of Mission for Turkey
- ^ A New Good-Will Ambassador For the Metropolitan Museum . In: The New York Times, February 10, 1979
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Macomber, William B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Macomber, William Butts, Jr. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2003 |
| Place of death | Nantucket , Massachusetts |